Use it online at icloud.com Or log into the app store with your account on a new mac and download the apps. Now theyll be forever attached to your account adn you can install them on your other devices for free, and legally. Apple wanted to make them truly no-strings-attatched free for everyone but strange FTC laws prohibited it.
I have been a reader of WIRED magazine since their first year. (calm down now; its just an example. let's argue the merits of Wired's newsworthiness elsewhere). I got an iPad, and when Wired came to the Newsstand app, I thought it would be an excellent thing for me- now I could read the magazine anywhere, anywhen. I didn't even have to pay, being a print subscriber was enough. But the thing is, I had to laboriously download each issue, they took up a lot of room on my iPad, and I just never remembered that there was an issue sitting, waiting for me. What did I do all those times i was stuck at an airport, or babysitting a sleeping baby, and had time on my hands? You'd THINK I would open up Newsstand and read an issue of Wired, but what I really did was opened up my RSS reader and skimmed headlines from dozens of blogs, all at once. Gizmodo, Engadget, Techcrunch, boingboing, Ars, Slashdot, and yes, Wired. I don't even read Wired any more. is it because of DRM, or watermarking? of course not. it's because: why would I sit down for an hour and read month-old news when i can get the headlines up-to-date every minute of every day, in bite-sized chunks? If you want to modernize and get online, that's great. But why are you only thinking of modernizing ONE part of your hundred-year-old delivery service? If you're just going online because that's what everyone is doing, I would say: forget it. Save your money. Keep printing your magazine, and the people who really need it for their jobs and their wellbeing will continue subscribing. But if you want to get with the Now, do it right. Stop thinking in monthly/bimonthly/quarterly/whatever publishing cycles. Publish a steady stream of articles and news, when they're ready, when they're relevant. Give subscribers a way to log in and go thorugh old content whenever they need it. Create a community, get information flowing in both directions. Add value. No one will bother pirating your content because there will be NEW content tomorrow. You can't pirate breaking news, and you cant pirate community feedback.
Doesn't have the internal optical drive, but its coming in under budget so they probably wouldn't mind buying an external. Don't know about the screen, though. It's the resolution of a 15", but its physically 13". It is cool, it has an SSD, the performance is great, and its a fabulous machine. If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up.
So why spend so much time and energy limiting the simulated world to be just like the real one, except with blacklight decor?
The real answer is probably because the artists tried all those things first and they looked bad on screen because that's not how we are used to visualizing things so they changed it to make it more palatable. But if you want a more philosophical answer, I'd say it's because the world, while simulated, was designed by Flynn, a real man, who's vision was limited by his real-world concepts.
User replaceable parts, redundant power, and hardware monitoring of hard drives, power supplies and fan speed. Plus lights out management and a serial port. All in 1U, not 6. Redundant product? you obviously dont work in a datacenter.
Facebook IS for non-uber-techy folk: non-uber-techy folk don't care about their privacy.
Face it, the key to a useful social media site isn't the features, or the security, it's the one with all your friends on it. You know, the "social part." Everyone you know is on Facebook. Learn how to deal with the privacy features such that they are, or do without the usefulness.
While I agree with your "safety first" attitude in principle, I'm really glad mankind as a whole isn't so conservative, or we'd still be in the 10th century. Live a little! Edison blew himself up hundreds of times and still kept hacking.
"It would be cool if my MacPro and my laptop used WiFi to sync up documents, preferences, media files and such. This problem is especially acute in iTunes where I have hundreds of GB of media on my main machine, but have to manually manage those things on my laptop. I wish Apple recognized this problem and solved it elegantly."
It's called.Mac. For $69 a year you get 10GB of online storage which automatically syncs with all your computers, AND Back To My mac which (with the right router) will dynamically track your IPs and allow you to share screens and files with your other machines from anywhere in the world with no configuring necessary.
Shortly before the MacBook Pros were first released, I was in on a conference call with other reps from most of the big AppleStores. Apple's hardware engineers wanted to hear what features customers were requesting most for their laptops. Just about every store rep including myself chimed in almost simultaneously "GPS". I personally can't get psyched for the technology (Still dont have a nav system in mr car and probably never will- analog maps work fine for me) but there's no question people were asking for it all the time. That, and power cords that wouldn't break. I think they chose the right one to fix first, and now they're maybe tackling the other?
If i make $20 an hour, am I losing $200 after playing 10 hours of WoW, or watching Battlestar Galactica, or hanging out at the mall?
Correction: It's not worth it if you're not having fun. But I can see how this could be a real educational experience, or at least a distraction. There are some people on/. that could get genuinely excited about running around courthouses from window to window with pink, green and white forms clutched excitedly in hand.
"What I don't understand is why Wal-Mart censors things anyway. If people don't like the content, why don't they just, you know, not buy it?
Imagine you are a devout Christian parent, who wants to shield your children from offensive material (The benificence of this standpoint being a separate argument). Now imagine that your children just HAVE TO see the new Fast & The Furious movie or their friends will think they're lame and they'll just, like, die. Imagine you love your children and you would do anything for them, but you don't want to expose them to something harmful like that. What would you do?
Not so exciting now, is it? Nature is not decimal-based. The only reason we tend to be is because of the number of fingers we have.
That's why he said "fun coincidences" and not, "OMG! Obviously there is some amazing correlation here, we must file for large government grants to study this!!!"
Great, government is sticking their nose in again and telling companies how to run their affairs, when no one asked.
Be a grownup. If you don't like your service, pick a different carrier. If you don't like the contracts, then don't go with one. You can already find carriers that offer no-contract service plans, and even the carriers that DO offer service plans, do so at a discount- I had the choice of signing up for a 2 year plan, 1 year plan, or no contract.
If this bill should change anything, it should force the providers to all play nice and finally get on the same technology, so consumers are able to switch providers and keep their phones. They should also not be allowed to advertise a calling plan for $29.95 a month, and then tack on $14 in "taxes and regulatory fees", which no doubt will go up even MORE after this useless "bill of rights' is passed.
Part of me wants to still say "no way" to the video iPod idea. See, everyone things its a foregone conclusion, but really, there isnt that big of a market... you have to think the way Apple does. They look for a product with HUGE demand, that no one is doing right. Competition leaves a bad taste in Apple's mouth- If people ARE doing it right, they wont bother- that's why they nixed the QuickTake, LaserWriter and Newton, and that's why there's no Apple phone or ink jet. And although the geeks on Slashdot and Engadget may be whining for Ogg Vorbis and a video iPod, I dont think, and I dont think that Apple thinks that millions of people will be lining up to pay $500 for a video iPod, because you know that's what it'll cost to do it right, and you know Apple will only do it if they can do it right.
On the other hand... The technology is there. NO, the current iPod DOESNT have the power to play video, despite what you may have heard- it has the throughput but not the cache. Or maybe it was the other way around. Anyway, the screen isnt high enough res or fast enough on the refresh. Also, with everyone and their momma going HD, a VidPod would be widescreen. Also, the Hitachi drives are hitting 80GB and are even thinner than the 60GB Toshibas APple uses now.
Then, we have the invite itself: the red curtains? Movie theater. And the event is held IN a theater, not a convention center, as they usually are.
Now, I wouldn't be surprised to see a new version of iTunes that supports video.. or should I say, pushes video support to the forefront. iTunes has supported video since ver. 4.5. Oh, yeah, you didn't know that? Yup. While you have that shocked look on your face, it also can catalogue PDFs. Yeah, seriously.
I would like to see them go farther- I'd like to see the iTunes music store start selling full length movies, not just music videos. 'Problem is, the MPAA have their heads just about as far up their asses as the RIAA does. So first off, Apple would not be ready to sell movies from a major label without extensive negotiations, and we would know about it. And with everyone in the RIAA hemming and hawing for more cheddar, I'd be surprised if they went for it at all.. or would I? I suppose the MPAA could be looking to one-up the RIAA and take the high road, but I seriously doubt it. The only company I can see biting is Sony- they are in the midst of heavy restructuring, they need something big to get things going, and they've been pretty buddy-buddy with Apple for the past year. AND they recently bought MGMs uber-massive movie library.
And how cool would it be if you could upload your own iMoves, and show them off, even SELL them along site the biggies? Like a combination of Atom Films and iTunes music store. Show your movies off for free, get feedback, drive traffic to your site, or even sell them for a buck, which goes right into your iTunes music store account, whick you would use to buy more music, which means more money for the RIAA.
Hell, go all the way, Apple. Incorporate a tuner and DVR into your new Macs, like you should have YEARS ago. HP may not be all that, but they're embarassing you with the Media PC. It ain't pretty, but its something more than you got. Arent the PowerBooks and PowerMacs about overdue for an upgrade??
But.. no, I just can't buy it. If and when the MPAA ponies up, it'll be to sell stripped-down movies in low-res that expire, or explode or something if you don't watch them in 15 minutes. And Apple wouldn't do that. I also don't think the RIAA would be bitching so much, if they were about to start ramping up the distribution (selling) of music videos. They would be saying they want more money, trating the vids like added content we just HAVE to have, rather than as what they are- commercials.
Plus, Apple just revved iTunes to 5.0 like a couple weeks ago, with the nano. Would they be overhauling it again that quick? There's always the chance 5.0 already has the juice, and it just needs a little.01 rev to unlock it. Doubt it, th
"Do any other music stores measure performance by the sale of songs? Well, most music stores don't actually sell songs, but do they even care about how many albums they sell?"
I'll bet that if you looked in some magazines back in the early 80s, when CDs first came out, they most certainly DID pat themselves on the back everytime a milestone was reached for CD sales. Remember: downloadable music is, relatively speaking, a very new and potentially paradigm-shifting innovation.
"the constant articles about the Virgina Tech cluster"
Granted, it wasnt earth-shattering news, but still, a supercomputer built from off-the-shelf parts being ranked in the top 5 supercompters of all time is most definitely "News for nerds", if you ask me.
Sure, perhaps they cant bother you if you're running SP2.. but there was a time when SP1 was supposed to be a lifesaver too.. and XP... and NT... how long until there's just as much spyware out there that doesn't care if you're running SP2, and we have another story like this all over again?
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free on any computer at icloud.com
Use it online at icloud.com Or log into the app store with your account on a new mac and download the apps. Now theyll be forever attached to your account adn you can install them on your other devices for free, and legally.
Apple wanted to make them truly no-strings-attatched free for everyone but strange FTC laws prohibited it.
I have been a reader of WIRED magazine since their first year. (calm down now; its just an example. let's argue the merits of Wired's newsworthiness elsewhere).
I got an iPad, and when Wired came to the Newsstand app, I thought it would be an excellent thing for me- now I could read the magazine anywhere, anywhen. I didn't even have to pay, being a print subscriber was enough. But the thing is, I had to laboriously download each issue, they took up a lot of room on my iPad, and I just never remembered that there was an issue sitting, waiting for me.
What did I do all those times i was stuck at an airport, or babysitting a sleeping baby, and had time on my hands? You'd THINK I would open up Newsstand and read an issue of Wired, but what I really did was opened up my RSS reader and skimmed headlines from dozens of blogs, all at once. Gizmodo, Engadget, Techcrunch, boingboing, Ars, Slashdot, and yes, Wired.
I don't even read Wired any more. is it because of DRM, or watermarking? of course not. it's because: why would I sit down for an hour and read month-old news when i can get the headlines up-to-date every minute of every day, in bite-sized chunks?
If you want to modernize and get online, that's great. But why are you only thinking of modernizing ONE part of your hundred-year-old delivery service? If you're just going online because that's what everyone is doing, I would say: forget it. Save your money. Keep printing your magazine, and the people who really need it for their jobs and their wellbeing will continue subscribing. But if you want to get with the Now, do it right. Stop thinking in monthly/bimonthly/quarterly/whatever publishing cycles. Publish a steady stream of articles and news, when they're ready, when they're relevant. Give subscribers a way to log in and go thorugh old content whenever they need it. Create a community, get information flowing in both directions. Add value. No one will bother pirating your content because there will be NEW content tomorrow. You can't pirate breaking news, and you cant pirate community feedback.
Doesn't have the internal optical drive, but its coming in under budget so they probably wouldn't mind buying an external. Don't know about the screen, though. It's the resolution of a 15", but its physically 13". It is cool, it has an SSD, the performance is great, and its a fabulous machine. If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up.
So you're the one who's killing Best Buy!
So why spend so much time and energy limiting the simulated world to be just like the real one, except with blacklight decor?
The real answer is probably because the artists tried all those things first and they looked bad on screen because that's not how we are used to visualizing things so they changed it to make it more palatable. But if you want a more philosophical answer, I'd say it's because the world, while simulated, was designed by Flynn, a real man, who's vision was limited by his real-world concepts.
User replaceable parts, redundant power, and hardware monitoring of hard drives, power supplies and fan speed. Plus lights out management and a serial port. All in 1U, not 6. Redundant product? you obviously dont work in a datacenter.
Dear scientists: Please stop fooling around with this silly stuff and give me my flying car!
First they came for the chemistry sets, and I did not speak up, because I was not a chemist.
Then they came for the dry ice...
Facebook IS for non-uber-techy folk: non-uber-techy folk don't care about their privacy.
Face it, the key to a useful social media site isn't the features, or the security, it's the one with all your friends on it. You know, the "social part." Everyone you know is on Facebook. Learn how to deal with the privacy features such that they are, or do without the usefulness.
I cant wait to see their in-house production of TRON produced by Cirque Du Soleil!
While I agree with your "safety first" attitude in principle, I'm really glad mankind as a whole isn't so conservative, or we'd still be in the 10th century. Live a little! Edison blew himself up hundreds of times and still kept hacking.
"It would be cool if my MacPro and my laptop used WiFi to sync up documents, preferences, media files and such. This problem is especially acute in iTunes where I have hundreds of GB of media on my main machine, but have to manually manage those things on my laptop. I wish Apple recognized this problem and solved it elegantly."
.Mac. For $69 a year you get 10GB of online storage which automatically syncs with all your computers, AND Back To My mac which (with the right router) will dynamically track your IPs and allow you to share screens and files with your other machines from anywhere in the world with no configuring necessary.
It's called
Don't forget I.M. Pei.
Shortly before the MacBook Pros were first released, I was in on a conference call with other reps from most of the big AppleStores. Apple's hardware engineers wanted to hear what features customers were requesting most for their laptops. Just about every store rep including myself chimed in almost simultaneously "GPS". I personally can't get psyched for the technology (Still dont have a nav system in mr car and probably never will- analog maps work fine for me) but there's no question people were asking for it all the time. That, and power cords that wouldn't break. I think they chose the right one to fix first, and now they're maybe tackling the other?
If i make $20 an hour, am I losing $200 after playing 10 hours of WoW, or watching Battlestar Galactica, or hanging out at the mall?
/. that could get genuinely excited about running around courthouses from window to window with pink, green and white forms clutched excitedly in hand.
Correction: It's not worth it if you're not having fun. But I can see how this could be a real educational experience, or at least a distraction. There are some people on
Imagine you are a devout Christian parent, who wants to shield your children from offensive material (The benificence of this standpoint being a separate argument). Now imagine that your children just HAVE TO see the new Fast & The Furious movie or their friends will think they're lame and they'll just, like, die. Imagine you love your children and you would do anything for them, but you don't want to expose them to something harmful like that. What would you do?
Not so exciting now, is it? Nature is not decimal-based. The only reason we tend to be is because of the number of fingers we have.
That's why he said "fun coincidences" and not, "OMG! Obviously there is some amazing correlation here, we must file for large government grants to study this!!!"
Creating content, distribution AND the products to view it? Great idea! its working gangbusters for Sony...
Did they bother polling Joss Whedon to see if he... you know.. felt like writing a second season?
Be a grownup. If you don't like your service, pick a different carrier. If you don't like the contracts, then don't go with one. You can already find carriers that offer no-contract service plans, and even the carriers that DO offer service plans, do so at a discount- I had the choice of signing up for a 2 year plan, 1 year plan, or no contract.
If this bill should change anything, it should force the providers to all play nice and finally get on the same technology, so consumers are able to switch providers and keep their phones. They should also not be allowed to advertise a calling plan for $29.95 a month, and then tack on $14 in "taxes and regulatory fees", which no doubt will go up even MORE after this useless "bill of rights' is passed.
Part of me wants to still say "no way" to the video iPod idea. See, everyone things its a foregone conclusion, but really, there isnt that big of a market... you have to think the way Apple does. They look for a product with HUGE demand, that no one is doing right. Competition leaves a bad taste in Apple's mouth- If people ARE doing it right, they wont bother- that's why they nixed the QuickTake, LaserWriter and Newton, and that's why there's no Apple phone or ink jet. And although the geeks on Slashdot and Engadget may be whining for Ogg Vorbis and a video iPod, I dont think, and I dont think that Apple thinks that millions of people will be lining up to pay $500 for a video iPod, because you know that's what it'll cost to do it right, and you know Apple will only do it if they can do it right.
.01 rev to unlock it. Doubt it, th
On the other hand... The technology is there. NO, the current iPod DOESNT have the power to play video, despite what you may have heard- it has the throughput but not the cache. Or maybe it was the other way around. Anyway, the screen isnt high enough res or fast enough on the refresh. Also, with everyone and their momma going HD, a VidPod would be widescreen. Also, the Hitachi drives are hitting 80GB and are even thinner than the 60GB Toshibas APple uses now.
Then, we have the invite itself: the red curtains? Movie theater. And the event is held IN a theater, not a convention center, as they usually are.
Now, I wouldn't be surprised to see a new version of iTunes that supports video.. or should I say, pushes video support to the forefront. iTunes has supported video since ver. 4.5. Oh, yeah, you didn't know that? Yup. While you have that shocked look on your face, it also can catalogue PDFs. Yeah, seriously.
I would like to see them go farther- I'd like to see the iTunes music store start selling full length movies, not just music videos. 'Problem is, the MPAA have their heads just about as far up their asses as the RIAA does. So first off, Apple would not be ready to sell movies from a major label without extensive negotiations, and we would know about it. And with everyone in the RIAA hemming and hawing for more cheddar, I'd be surprised if they went for it at all.. or would I? I suppose the MPAA could be looking to one-up the RIAA and take the high road, but I seriously doubt it. The only company I can see biting is Sony- they are in the midst of heavy restructuring, they need something big to get things going, and they've been pretty buddy-buddy with Apple for the past year. AND they recently bought MGMs uber-massive movie library.
And how cool would it be if you could upload your own iMoves, and show them off, even SELL them along site the biggies? Like a combination of Atom Films and iTunes music store. Show your movies off for free, get feedback, drive traffic to your site, or even sell them for a buck, which goes right into your iTunes music store account, whick you would use to buy more music, which means more money for the RIAA.
Hell, go all the way, Apple. Incorporate a tuner and DVR into your new Macs, like you should have YEARS ago. HP may not be all that, but they're embarassing you with the Media PC. It ain't pretty, but its something more than you got. Arent the PowerBooks and PowerMacs about overdue for an upgrade??
But.. no, I just can't buy it. If and when the MPAA ponies up, it'll be to sell stripped-down movies in low-res that expire, or explode or something if you don't watch them in 15 minutes. And Apple wouldn't do that. I also don't think the RIAA would be bitching so much, if they were about to start ramping up the distribution (selling) of music videos. They would be saying they want more money, trating the vids like added content we just HAVE to have, rather than as what they are- commercials.
Plus, Apple just revved iTunes to 5.0 like a couple weeks ago, with the nano. Would they be overhauling it again that quick? There's always the chance 5.0 already has the juice, and it just needs a little
I'll bet that if you looked in some magazines back in the early 80s, when CDs first came out, they most certainly DID pat themselves on the back everytime a milestone was reached for CD sales. Remember: downloadable music is, relatively speaking, a very new and potentially paradigm-shifting innovation.
"the constant articles about the Virgina Tech cluster"
Granted, it wasnt earth-shattering news, but still, a supercomputer built from off-the-shelf parts being ranked in the top 5 supercompters of all time is most definitely "News for nerds", if you ask me.
Well, theres Apple, of course. And Pixar. And the Virginia Tech supercluster, and the majority of genetic research/biotech labs, like the Whitehead Institute, BioGen and Genentech. Then there's Staples corporate headquarters. Those are the ones I know of off the top of my head.
Sure, perhaps they cant bother you if you're running SP2.. but there was a time when SP1 was supposed to be a lifesaver too.. and XP... and NT... how long until there's just as much spyware out there that doesn't care if you're running SP2, and we have another story like this all over again?